AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

In the Netherlands, the rijkwaterstaat (rws), the ministry of transport and waterways, established a special division, the dienst verkeerskunde (dvk), which continuously collects data on traffic flows and other traffic characteristics. Automated methods of analysis of the traffic at sixty permanent counting sites throughout the country are now undertaken by this division. For each traffic lane, at each site, two inductive detection loops are placed in the road surface. From the pulses obtained, it is shown how the traffic intensity, the velocity of vehicles and their length can be determined. The accuracy of these observations is discussed. Details of the yearly survey of traffic published by the dvk is given. The application of automated traffic analysis to an automatic traffic management system on A highway, using visual signalling to drivers, is described. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Helden, D
  • Voort, R C
• Publication Date: 1974-8-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 731-734
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 16/1
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Automatic control; Automation; Length; Motor vehicles; Sensors; Speed; Traffic; Traffic control; Traffic counting stations; Traffic counts; Traffic flow; Traffic signs; Traffic speed; Variables; Vehicle detectors; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic analysis
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 1057: Air transport network; 3882: Automatic; 6488: Length; 8078: Netherlands; 6120: Sensor; 5408: Speed; 654: Traffic control; 689: Traffic count; 553: Traffic sign; 9086: Variability
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00098106
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1975 12:00AM